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If you haven’t picked up on it already, I am full-on obsessed with cookies.
I created two other Levain Bakery Copycat recipes and they have been the top recipes on Modern Honey ever since. Levain Bakery’s signature cookie is still holding on to it’s 5 star rating over a year after posting the recipe —
Levain Bakery Copcyat Chocolate Chip Crush Cookies
Levain Bakery Copycat Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies has a 5 star rating as well.
Now it’s time to share my original Levain Bakery Dark Chocolate Chocolate Chip Copycat Cookies recipe. This recipe is so much like the original Levain Bakery cookie that you will not even know the difference!
This cookie is full of rich chocolate and studded with semisweet chocolate chips for all of the chocoholics out there. The fascinating thing about Levain Bakery cookies is their ability to be thick without being cakey.
If you read my other Levain Bakery copycat cookie post, you will know that those cookies are my husband’s favorite cookie of all time. I think the reason is that they aren’t over the top sweet. They are rich and decadent without putting you into a sugar coma.
There are a few SECRET tricks that make these Levain Bakery Dark Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies extra special:
- Use very cold butter. Now, I am not talking about throwing two cubes of cold butter into the mixer and hoping the butter will incorporate into the sugars. Nope. The key is to cut the butter with a knife into small cubes, making it easier to cream with the sugar. We want them to become one and meld together to break down the graininess of the sugar. Cream for at least 4 minutes on high until light and fluffy.
- Use good high quality cocoa, if at all possible. Levain uses dark cocoa for these cookies. If you can find that in your grocery stores, use it! Hershey’s makes a dark chocolate cocoa that would be fantastic. Guittard and Ghirardelli makes high quality cocoa powders as well. If you follow me at all, you know I am a huge fan of Callebaut cocoa. It’s found in the bulk bin section at Winco and is very reasonable.
- Use a mix of cake flour and all-purpose flour. Why cake flour? You know how I talked about Levain being a thick cookie without tasting like a scone? When you use cake flour, it creates a more TENDER crumb on the cookie which creates a mouth watering texture.
- Another game changer is cornstarch. It also helps to create and soft and tender cookie.
- Bake at high heat. You want to shock these Dark Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies with high heat so they don’t spread too rapidly. It helps keep their shape and make those crispy edges.
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Levain Bakery Dark Chocolate Chocolate Chip Copycat Cookies
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 cup Cold Butter cut into small cubes
- 1 cup Brown Sugar
- 1/2 cup Sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 1/2 cup Dark Baking Cocoa
- 1 cup Cake Flour
- 1 1/2 cup All-Purpose Flour
- 1 teaspoon Cornstarch
- 3/4 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt
- 1 1/3 cup Semisweet Chocolate Chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 410 degrees.
- In large bowl, cream together cold butter and sugars until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
- Add cocoa, cake flour, all-purpose flour, cornstarch, baking soda, and salt and stir until combined. Stir in semisweet chocolate chips.
- Chill dough for 15 minutes.
- Separate dough into large balls and place on lightly colored cookie sheet. Lightly press on top of dough to smooth out. If you have a scale, you can make them anywhere from 4.5 ounces - 6 ounces. You will fit 4-6 cookies on one large cookie sheet. The dough makes 8-12 extra large cookies.
- Bake for 9-11 minutes or until golden brown on the top. Let them rest for at least 10-15 minutes to set.
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Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
You are going to go crazy over these Levain Bakery Dark Chocolate Chocolate Chip Copycat Cookies and won’t be able to tell the difference.
Happy Baking, my friends! xo
These turned out amazing and taste just like the bakery ones!
You recipes are wonderful. Thank you for the hard work you do in creating them. One suggestion, could you give metric weights? It makes the recipe more dependable and replicable. Gettig the correct weight of cubed butter inna volumw based measurement is a hot or miss affair, for instance. Density of ingredients changes with temperature, so cup measures cannot be dependable.
can i chill dough for 24 hours instead of 15 mins?
I ussualy do. They taste even better if you let them rest longer. I also use to let the dough in the fridge for days and bake then as needed.
Insanely delicious. Made exactly as written (except arrowroot for cornstarch as didn’t have it). These are incredibly fabulous and easy. Be warned.
Made a gluten-free, dairy-free version of these tonight and they were fantastic! Loved them and will totally be trying the regular Levain bakery copycat recipe some time soon!!
how did you make them? I’m trying to go vegan and would love a vegan copycat to these cookies
I got crazy first time i eat the cookie in BridgeHampton i love it is so delicious i will recommend this bakery amazing
Hi, can I use flax seed or chia seed as an egg replacement in this recipe? I would love to make a vegan version of this recipe. Can you please make a vegan version of this recipe?
Made a batch for my dad for a Christmas Cookie added some chopped pecans. Had an extra cookie that did not fit in cookie tin so I warmed in microwave next morning enjoyed with a cup of coffee. The cookie was amazing . Dropped in the mail for some Christmas Cheer.
HI hi, this recipes looks great, and I definitely want to try this Christmas. If I make them 1/2 the weight at 75gr each do I 1/2 the baking time too ? bake 6 mins ? and may I know do you use dark brown sugar or just the normal ? Thank you very much for sharing this great recipe
Dark brown or light? Please respond as soon as possible! I need to make these again and don’t remember which I used last time.
Just stumbled onto your page and had my daughter who is 14 and an amazing baker, make these cookies for me.
As a huge Levain fan who has eaten them many times I defy most people to taste the difference between the original and your copy recipe.Wow. Next up is the peanut butter ones.
Thank you so much for this great recipe.